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Flammie on: differences between Inari and North Sámi—cheat sheet

I have studied a bit of Inari Sámi with few very good remote courses from Uni Oulu, and I work with North Sámi speakers a lot. The languages are quite mutually intelligible but some differences, orthography is slightly different, few sounds too, also nominal inflection has different cases. But the main difference to remember when speaking is the lexemes, usually some common words that are shared between Finnish or Norwegian and vice versa.

Lexical differences

Inari	North	English gloss	Norwegian gloss	Finnish gloss
takkâ	giitu	thanks	takk	kiitos
okko	vahkku	week	uke	viikko
ihe	jahki	year	år	vuosi
ollâopâttâh	universitehta	university	universitet	yliopisto
koččâmuš	gažaldat, jearaldat	question	spörsmål	kysymys